I did these the other day and made good money fast. Title: Write and annotate queries to a song recommendation system Requester: Muko Inc [A1PNODX6B6HJQV] (TO) TO Ratings: No TO (Submit a new TO rating for this requester) Description: Write and annotate 10 queries to a song recommendation system. The queries need to be varied in style. Time: 60 minutes Hits Available: 7 Reward: $0.60 Qualifications: Total approved HITs is not less than 5000; Location is one of: AU, CA, GB, US; HIT approval rate (%) is not less than 98
Half of the tasks on here we are training computer models to replace us. Not even joking a bit. The non-replaceable tasks in the form of surveying are being run off by Amazon's pricing model. I'm not suggesting Amazon will shut down Mturk tomorrow or the day after. But would I be shocked if in a year or two it's a former shell of itself? Not in the least. I could be completely wrong too. But I'd rather be prepared in case I am correct than unprepared and left in the lurch.
We can just agree to disagree I suppose. I don't believe anything I said was wrong in the least or negative. Isn't it better to have more ways to earn income and marketable skills than not? If I offended you or anyone else by suggesting that I apologize.
All he's saying is it's a good idea to have multiple streams of income. People said that on every single work-related site I've been on. It's a pretty common practice in freelancing.
Yes, but I would have multiple sources of income to make more money. Not to escape a dying ship. I see a difference between the two, that's just me.
When you're self employed, pretty much everything is potentially a dying ship. And yes, sometimes that is a sad and paranoid mentality to have, but oh well.
One reason I love Mturk is because I hate customer service and I love making my own hours and working from home and being able to change locations and still be making money right away. The cons to that is that you have to work at mturk - other jobs you get paid for lots of seconds when you're not actually working - not so at mturk. Also there's sort of a steep learning curve and even then you're not guaranteed that great of money. And yeah it's all risky. You can get mass rejects or your account suspended or the whole thing could close tomorrow. But well I'll take the risks and try to get better and better and hope for the best and if it all comes crashing down then well I'll deal with that then.
I sure the hell would be in debt for a lot longer and probably put off retirement for a few more years down the road if it were to close up shop. I only turk to pay off student loans (which is tens of thousands of dollars). Everything I make on here goes toward student loans, in addition to the money I throw at it a month. I've made a pretty good dent in the debt over the past year by doing this.
Well, technically the idea is that if one of your streams dries up, you won't be left unable to pay your bills. And it happens fairly commonly. Businesses close up shop, work platforms shut down, new tech replaces old tech, places restructure themselves and lay off in the process, clients bankrupt themselves, and entire business models become passé.
I'm sorry. D: Good reminder about possibly avoiding those HITs. Seeing something like that would seriously upset me. Someone give this woman(man?) something funny!
Thanks! I learn so much every day from reading the forum. I try to post a good hit (when I can find them) in return.
Some people gave me funnies earlier I was really unprepared... I can (and have) handled some really gruesome things, but not that.. no no no. Thank you! Oh, I'm female
not me, when it's time for me to go I'll just be heading to SEXAY Land to live out my leg/foot fetish for eternity